A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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Address ul. Jagiellońska 1, Kraków
Tags Drama
Entry 60–80 PLN
Venue's website www.stary.pl…
Length 120 min
Director Krzysztof Garbaczewski
Release 2022
Author William Shakespeare

Performing: Bogdan Brzyski, Maciej Charyton, Małgorzata Gałkowska, Roman Gancarczyk, Grzegorz Grabowski, Zygmunt Józefczak, Bolesław Brzozowski, Paweł Kruszelnicki, Mikołaj Kubacki, Marta Ojrzyńska, Magda Grąziowska, Błażej Peszek, Małgorzata Zawadzka, Krzysztof Zawadzki

In Krzysztof Garbaczewski’s staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the creation of the fantastical world and its protagonists—Oberon, Titania, Puck—comes through virtual reality technology, playing with the physical gulf between the user (the actor) and the buggy avatar. In a world of simulacra, of imitations, reflections, or imaginings, art becomes a reality of the highest order. In the space of art we can articulate the virtual as a relationship occurring in the world. Perhaps it also holds a way of altering the prevailing norms and models, pointing toward the new and creative.

In their interpretation of Shakespeare’s drama, the creators of the play take a page from Gilles Deleuze: The Deleuzian difference is the event of the meeting with the Other, without which all discourse of the Other is impossible. This encounter with the Other, staring into their unfamiliar face, is a shattering and traumatic experience, it is an apocalypse. Yet it need not signify an end. Salvation is possible, and is guaranteed by a Metamorphosis. Reflections on Metamorphosis in A Midsummer Night’s Dream also address social, personal, aesthetic, ecological, and technological issues.

translation: Stanisław Barańczak
script: Patrycja Wysokińska
set and costume design: Aleksandra Wasilkowska
music: Bartosz Zaskórski
choreographer: Tomasz Bazan
lighting director, video coordinator: Robert Mleczko
VR: Anastasia Vorobiova, Mateusz Korsak
stage manager, prompter: Katarzyna Gaweł

This performance will be presented in Polish with no surtitles.

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